Feb 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Four in ten* patients screened for breast cancer are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis due to the presence of dense breast tissue. Traditional mammography cannot reliably diagnose the disease in these patients, sometimes even with the help of supplemental screening....
Nov 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member, Michael Oelze, and his collaborative breast cancer and ultrasound imaging research with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, was awarded a major $2M grant from the National Cancer Institute...
Oct 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate in the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Boudreau’s research has centered around a novel...
Jul 14, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members are working to combat COVID-19 with many new research projects funded through the Jump ARCHES research and development program in partnership with OSF HealthCare and The Grainger College of Engineering. CCIL members Rashid Bashir, Brian Cunningham, Joseph...
Jun 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Three interdisciplinary projects designed by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty were selected for the Cancer Center at Illinois’ annual seed grant awards. The CCIL’s seed grant funding has supported transformative transdisciplinary research and...
Jun 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is supporting three new cancer research projects through its planning grant initiative. Recipients will each receive up to $25,000 to spark innovative research projects that have promise...
Apr 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A warm, tropical island protects the secrets of mysterious, colorful flora, while scientists spend decades searching for medical remedies. This may seem like the start to an Indiana Jones adventure, and for University of Illinois Chemistry Assistant Professor and...
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Two grants will fund interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, including a look at how neurons and muscle cells communicate with each other and also to develop a drug delivery system for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease....
Jan 30, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Elisabeth Martin, Bioengineering sophomore from Dunlap, Ill., recently received a $2,000 research support grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award, one of only 25 given to U of I undergraduates...
Nov 11, 2019 | Cancer Center News
CCIL Member and Professor, Hua Li. CCIL member Hua Li, adjunct research associate professor in bioengineering and medical physicist in the Carle Cancer Center, received $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)...
Jul 7, 2016 | Cancer Center News
While biological understanding has long focused on understanding the behavior of single cell types, there is a growing realization that the microenvironment of a tissue may determine its fate. Hence, a quantitative understanding of the tissue microenvironment (TiMe)...
